Can we still afford human rights? : critical reflections on universality, proliferation and costs / edited by Jan Wouters, Koen Lemmens, Thomas Van Poecke, Marie Bourguignon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Van Poecke, Thomas, editor.

Lemmens, Koen, editor.

Bourguignon, Marie-Amélie, editor.

Wouters, Jan, 1964- editor.

Series:

Leuven global governance.

Leuven global governance series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

United Nations. General Assembly. Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

United Nations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, England ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

"This insightful book offers a critical reflection on the sustainability and effectiveness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and its legacy over the last 70 years. Exploring the problems surrounding universality, proliferation and costs, it asks the provocative question, can we still afford human rights?"

Contents:

The interdependence of issues relating to the universality, proliferation and costs of human rights / Thomas Van Poecke, Marie Bourguignon, Jan Wouters and Koen Lemmens

Part I: The universality of human rights

The mythic universality of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights : revisiting the drafting history of the UDHR in search of a foundational theory / Nick Goetschalckx

The case for a comprehensive global human rights treaty under UN auspices / Konstantinos D. Magliveras

The universality of human rights : a European perspective / Paul Lemmens

Recognition of same-sex relationships under the ECHR : till death, or the lack of European consensus, do us part / Johan Lievens and Nele Verbrugghe

Part II: The proliferation of human rights

The proliferation of human rights : between devotion and calculation / Kasey McCall-Smith

Human rights adjudication : between hopes and failures / Dalia Palombo

Sustainable development in "new generation" trade agreements of the European Union : towards integration or fragmentation of the human rights language? / Michelle Meulebrouck

Denationalization under the EC(t)HR : a need for an autonomous human right to a nationality? / Louise Reyntjens

Part III: The costs of human rights

Economic, social and political costs of the (non-)realization of human rights : towards a new social contract / Felipe Gómez Isa

Conflicts in human rights-based development / Gustavo Arosemena and Bart Kleine Deters

Rights and development : the costs of human rights in Ethiopia / Dina Townsend and Nicky Broeckhoven

The least financially accountable branch? : the right to health and the judiciary's power of the purse : an Israeli perspective / Hillel Sommer

The human rights project : perspectives on universality, proliferation and costs of human rights / Dima Yared.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83910-032-X

OCLC:

1201266965